Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-03
JUDGE LYNCH'S METHOD,
Two Boys OriminaIIy Assault a Farmers
Daughter-One Is Lynehed.

Two Boys OriminaIIy Assault Farmers
Daughter-One Is Lynehed,
BOSTON, IND, June AT 10 o'clock
Sunday morning Walter and Charles
Davis, brothers, visited the FIannegan
| residence in Perry county, and told the
two Flanagan boys that some stray stock
was breaking into the farm mile
away from the house. When the bows
had gone TO look after the supposed stray
stock the Davis boys carried q fourteen
year-old sister Of the Flannegan's to 8
neighboring wood. A handkerchief was
placed over her mouth and the girl was
tied to tree while her person was yio-
/ lated. After this assault she was
/ beaten with s stick of wood and
/ left for dead. When her two brothers re-
turned home search was made for the
missing sister. An ell nights hunt failed
to discover her, but on MOndaV morning
the neighbors found the girl almost dead
tied to tree in the woods. The Davis
boys, who made the assault, were found
in the woods near the suffering girl On
Monday morning. One account states both
of them were taken to q ssppling near by
and lynChed after they had confessed the
deed. Another states that Walter Davis
escaped, but that just after dark his
brother Charles was found concealed
under the house and was dragged out by
an infuriated mob. He was securely
strapped to g horse and driven back TO
the spot where he had raYished the girl.
He begged for mercy, but his cries
were unheeded. He was taken
from tle horse, his hands
tied behind him and he was given two
minutes in which TO pray. He avsiIed
himself OF the time allowed and at the
expiration Of it stout sappling was bent
down, a short rope Yves tied TO the top
with the other end about Davis neck.
Six men held down the tree and when it
was released il flew back into position
and Davis was ieTked twenty feet into
the air. The force threw him over the
top OF the tree and as the rope
brought him up short on the other side
his neck was broken. His body WIS
riddled with bullets by the cTOWd-z8nd ne
was allowed to hang there until yester-
day morning, when he was cut down by
his father and given burial.
FURTHER SUSPICIOUS AROUSED.
READING, Pa, June 1.-The remains of
Samuel Sprsw and Willie Kellen, the two
boys who were so brutally murdered by
their grandfather, William Showers, who
is now in Lebanon jail, were buried to-
day in the village cemetery. Thous .nds
of persons attended the burial, and pub
lie excitement is undated. There is no
doubt in the minds OF the
neighbors that Showers motive
in killing the boys was his desire to .
marry Miss Sargent, who had promised
to marry him if the boys were placed in
a home or bound cut. Showers wife
died suddenly year ago, and her daugh-
ter, the mother of the boys, several
months later, and there is now sus-
picion that this same desire of Showers
to marry Miss Sargent led him TO take the
lives of his wife and daughter. In
the house to-day oranges were
found which are said to contain poison,
and a thorough Investigation will be made
in the endesVor toNescertain Whetheryor
not Showers is responsible for the,death
of the women.